Lilac Dove

Sweet cherry
Soft lace
I’m not one to misbehave
Cut up
Raw face
Turn the lights down in this place

You, there
Born wild
Riding down to the canyon
Me, still
Froze thick
You’re my chosen companion

Don’t look back twice
Motorcycle new and heavy
Desktop picture cute
Think we’re going steady

Is it time already?

A lawyer calling a client who doesn’t want to answer
The looming, engulfing ringtone sounds like a disaster
You could cut it with a
You could cut it with a

The ringing alarms
The after-school noise
You could cut it with a
You could cut it with a

Knees across knees
Tension quite rough
You could cut it with a
You could cut it with a

Projectile vomiting
Hazy chocolate sphere
You could cut it with a
You could cut it with a

Miniature corpses
That day of the dead bullshit
You should turn that shit off

You could cut it with a
You could cut it with –

Ten minutes after nine
In the swimming pool
How do I make you mine
You’re just so damn cool

With your bedazzled jeans
That I laughed at
And the way you cringe
Those eyelashes you bat

It’s spring-time and I’m back home
Found you waiting at my door
Iconic delusions, and the unknown
The Hollywood signs that call strangers whores

All of the falls and winters added up
And believe we’re back to this place
But what comes back
You’ll make disappear without a trace

You know that’d be a mistake

A cataclysm
I speak for the dead
I am the words keeping you awake in your head

A vivid surrender
It makes a good fight
That is when all of the noise will take flight

What do we do
With the absence in this room
I didn’t mean for all these strangers to intrude

To be read rushed
This is to be read like you’re going out of your mind
Like it isn’t real that there is an absence of time

Like you’re out of your mind
Like you’re out of your mind

With the absence in this room
You go out of your mind

Kind of developed a habit
Of missing you in the daytime
Surviving off blended fruit
Berries cherries and lime

Lime all of the time
The kids were trying to feel fine

Cool raspberry
Wear it to church
I’m sure it gives you chills
The deep red color makes you fall ill

Red Range Rover
Pull over
Don’t get me started about this

Don’t get me started about this